One of the challenges a parody writer faces is what to do with an original song that uses a repetitive tag line. Should you repeat it or try to add some variety? See Tommy Turtle's comments on my rendition of "Mother in Law". I was thinking about this dilemma the other night as I was driving home. Then, on the radio, I heard a song which basically consists of the same verse repeated five times. Repetition? That which follows is the same as that which came before. And another word for that is: "cloning". As my long time "fans" know, I still haven't given up on my dreams of world conquest at the head of an army of clones of myself. So here I go again.

Astute musicologists might note how I did a little "gene splicing" taking lyrics from "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Son of Man Goes Forth to War" which are slightly different songs with the same tune. *Dupe: collector term for "duplicate". Also, someone you can trick into doing your bidding. Either interpretation could apply here. The last verse sort of reminds me of "And The Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'", by Eric Bogle, perhaps the greatest anti-war song of all time. Several good versions on youtube. Check it out.